Discusses the difficulties English speakers experience in using correctly the various tenses of the past in French, focusing particularly on the imperfect tense. Proposes a series of exercises based on contrastive analysis that gradually lead the learner to restructure his intuitive grammar. (MES)

Includes 4 brief articles concerning: (1) how to express refusals; (2) how to tell jokes and humorous stories; (3) how to learn the use of "a qui" and "a quoi" through a classroom game; and (4) how to test pronunciation intelligibility. (MES)

Outlines a lesson used for the second level of French instruction in the Hong Kong branch of the Alliance Francaise. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Outlines a method for teaching French conversation by means of audiovisual aids. The article is part of a series reporting on French language instruction in the Irish branch of the Alliance Francaise. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Discusses the changing nature of linguistics following the advent of sociolinguistics, and explores the implications for language instruction. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

This article describes a summer workshop designed to test the use of newspapers as instructional materials for French instruction. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Proposes the use of literary dialogues as a good source of classroom material because they tend to be relatively authentic and concern original situations. Suggestions are made for using literary dialogues in the classroom, and examples and ideas for choosing materials are provided. (MSE)

Radio France International, the Alliance Francaise, and the Hachette publishing company have collaborated to develop an instructional radio series linking the broadcasts with published instructional materials. Considerations addressed in the program's development are discussed. (MSE)

Three exercises in the use of newspapers in the French classroom encourage attention to such things as page layout and composition as well as content. There are suggestions for using French radio news magazine shows and television news to develop a sense of the larger organization of language and information by the media. (CNP)

This annotated bibliography lists dictionaries, readers, and records for French as a foreign language for children. Each entry includes the author, publication date and source, if available. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Outlines the development of a bilingual, bicultural, multidisciplinary game integrating observation and discrimination in the areas of history, geography, sciences, and design. The theme is a tour of the Val de Loire. (Text is in French.) (MSE)

Discusses the use of press materials, including newspapers, magazines, news weeklies, and publicity ads in French civilization instruction. (Text is in French.) (AM)

This article provides an analysis of textbooks available for teaching French civilization and ranging in orientation from subjective, historical, geographical, cultural and sociological approaches to anthropological, semiotic, comparative and linguistic ones. The content and the format of the texts is dealt with, as well as various teaching…

Describes the following instructional aids for French: (1) a word study kit; (2) a set of language arts fascicles; (3) bilingual French-Creole cartoons illustrating Creole folk tales; and (4) a collection of 13 bilingual French-Creole folk tales. These may be used in teaching French as a native or second language. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Language class activities concerning foods and recipe-reading, family life, learning to read the newspaper rapidly and critically, and French proverbs are described. (MSE)